by Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – In a wide-ranging conference call with the Black Press, the Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan said the upcoming “Justice or Else” rally set for October 10 celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Million Man March is just the beginning of the movement. Benjamin F. […]
Thurgood Marshall College Fund Launches Apple Scholars Program
by Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – On Tuesday [Aug.25], the Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF) opened the application process for the Apple HBCU Scholars program to help the most valuable company in the world identify the next generation of high-performing leaders of color in technology. The program, which targets students attending […]
Boosting Child Tax Credit Would Lift Poor Black Children Out of Poverty
by Freddie Allen, Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Reforms proposed to the Child Tax Credit by the Center for American Progress could help to reduce poverty in children younger than 3 years old in the Black community by nearly 22 percent. The plans to enhance the credit are laid out in a report by […]
Julian Bond Praised for Unselfish Devotion to Human Rights
by Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Julian Bond, a founding member and communications director of Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and immediate past board chairman of the NAACP, is being praised for his lifelong human rights contributions by people ranging from President Obama and his former civil rights colleagues to ordinary […]
Dominican Republic’s ‘Ethnic Cleansing’
By Freddie Allen, NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent July 10, 2015 WASHINGTON, D.C. (NNPA) – A Dominican Republic court order threatens to force more than 200,000 Dominican-born Haitians from their homes in an effort that many human rights watchers have called modern-day ethnic cleansing. Just days after the Rachel Dolezal episode captivated […]
Lynch’s Installation as Attorney General Overshadowed by Charleston Tragedy
By Freddie Allen, NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent July 3, 2015 WASHINGTON, D.C. (NNPA) – On the same day that Loretta Lynch was sworn-in as the 83rd attorney general of the United States using a Bible that belonged to Frederick Douglass, nine church members were shot to death as they studied the Bible […]
Closing Achievement Gaps Requires More than Education Reform
By Freddie Allen, NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent June 19, 2015 WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Education reform alone isn’t enough to close achievement gaps between Blacks and Whites, according to a new report by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI). The study by EPI, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank focused on the needs of low- […]
Blacks Least Likely to Get Business Loan from Banks
By Freddie Allen, Senior Washington Correspondent June 5, 2015 Ron Busby urges a personal relationship with banker. WASHINGTON, D.C. (NNPA) – Black-owned businesses face tougher challenges than other groups when seeking bank loans, according to a new study by the Gallup polling company commissioned by Wells Fargo. Nearly half (47 percent) […]